On Jul 27, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Georgi Karavasilev <motors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The unity panel has several issues that have been existing since 11.04: > - The panel shadow is not a real proper GL drawn shadow, but rather a .PNG > that is being repeated right below the panel and that causes the following > issues: > - The higher the value of panel's opacity is, the smaller the panel > shadow is, hence resulting in disappearing completely when the opacity level > is below 0.3500 > - The panel opacity is tied to the file manager drawing the desktop > - The panel transparency is not completely chameleonic (or custom coloured > if the user has set a custom colour via CCSM), but it rather mixes the > chameleonic colour with the GTK theme set colour (gradient) for the panel, > hence resulting in being next to impossible to make the launcher and the > panel being coloured the same way > - The panel is not transparent and chameleonic out of the box, but follows > the GTK theming which results in these: > - Pros: The panel is being consistent with the gtk themed indicator menus > and the appmenu > - Cons: The panel is inconsistent with the transparent and chameleonic > launcher > - There are bugs with the using panel transparency under Intel videos like: > - When the "panel opacity toggles" is enabled and switching from one > workspace to another not using the Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys the panel blurring > sometimes gets screwed and leaves the planned with a background blurred a > millisecond or so before the switch to the workspace > - The panel sometimes go transparent when the Dash is active, even > through there is an maximized window on this workspace > My point is - even if we forget about the bugs for a while, shouldn't the > panel be chameleonic and transparent out of the box(of course with "panel > opacity" toggles enabled so when the user maximases a window everything is to > look consistent) ? Surely that would break the consistency with the GTK > themed indicators and the appmenu , but it also would mean that the panel > will be consistent with the launcher and the chances are people spend more > time on their computers without browsing through the indicator or the appmenu > :) > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp I've never found the shadows to be a problem, but maybe that's just me. They do what they are supposed to do, which is give perspective that the top panel is above the rest of the desktop. ---Ryan -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
